In Shrews’ Shoes

In the organizer's words:

In Shrews' Shoes is an autofictional performance that deals with female* socialization in the working class, transgenerational obsession with control and cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Based on a personal, queer-feminist examination of practices of control and (self-)domestication of the body, it raises the question of how experienced or inherited traumas and care work define the female* role.

Based on the figure of the mega-era as an alternative to the desirable, heteronormative image of women, who embodies a non-romanticized version of care work, the artist Cochon de Cauchemar [they/sie/es], alias her alter ego Nympho-Ménage, examines the private sphere as an ambivalent place of realization and alienation and, through exaggeration, sarcasm and absurdity, encourages the audience to take a stance and question their own manifested images of the body, sexuality and gender.

ContinuRingRing is the new work-in-progress format of the Berlin Ringtheater. It enables artists to further develop an existing idea or research and bring it to the stage in a show. With ContinuRingRing, the Ringtheater aims to support artists in their creative process and establish opportunities for exchange and feedback.

DIRECTION, ACTING, CHOREOGRAPHY, COSTUME AND STAGE DESIGN, TEXT, VIDEOS
Cochon de Cauchemar

MUSIC AND SOUND
Michael Glucksmann

ACTING (AS THE DOPPELGANGER OF NYMPHO-MÉNAGE)
Virginia Clemm

TECHNIQUE
tba

HOUSE DRAMATURGY RINGTHEATER
Simone Bäuchle

TECHNOLOGY RINGTHEATER
Yve Oh

LANGUAGE
English and French